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  • Day Two-Forty-Five: A Little Good News

    October 18, 2017 JWRomick

    Just over eight months after surgery, Teri had her first post-op mammogram. In between the surgery, Day Thirty-Eight, March 24, 2017 and this procedure Teri

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  • Day One-Eighteen: Milestone

    June 12, 2017 JWRomick

    Teri rang the bell today. It’s the traditional signal that a patient has finished their radiation therapy. She started radiation on Monday, May 1 and

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  • Day Eighty: The New Normal

    May 6, 2017 JWRomick

    We have settled into a new, if temporary, normalcy. On Friday May 5, Day Eighty, Teri finished up her first week of radiation treatment. She’ll

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  • Day Sixty-Nine: No Chemo

    April 24, 2017 JWRomick

    Early on in my documenting Teri’s battle with breast cancer I qualified the use of the term “good news.” Anything short of total and miraculous

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  • Day Fifty-Seven: More Detail

    April 15, 2017 JWRomick

    We met with Dr. Santiago, the radiation oncologist, on Wednesday, April 12, Day Fifty-Seven. This was our second meeting with Dr. Santiago. She has been

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  • Day Fifty-Five: Next Steps

    April 11, 2017 JWRomick

    We’ve turned a bit of a corner. Teri had her second post-op appointment with her surgeon on Monday, April 10, Day Fifty-Five. He told her

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  • Day Forty-Five: Expectation Management

    March 31, 2017 JWRomick

    I really need to learn to manage my expectations. And by manage I mean lower. Maybe it’s due to my being raised and spending a

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  • Day Thirty-Eight: Surgery

    March 27, 2017 JWRomick

    Teri had her lumpectomy on Friday, March 24, 2017. After the operation the surgeon, Dr. Powell came out to tell me how it went. He

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  • Day Thirty-One: Surgery Set

    March 18, 2017 JWRomick

    Thirty-one days after Teri’s initial diagnosis we were set to meet with the surgeon to go over all of the treatment options, make a decision

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  • Day Twenty-Four: A Little News

    March 12, 2017 JWRomick

    Sometimes you have to dig a little to get information. And sometimes that digging pays off. Teri called the lab where she had the genetic

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  • Day Twenty: Hurry Up & Wait

    March 6, 2017 JWRomick

    I am coming to understand something. The race against cancer is timed with a calendar, not a stop watch. Today we met with the primary

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  • Day Ten: Meet The Team

    March 1, 2017 JWRomick

    Friday, February 24, 2017. Met with four doctors today, a surgeon, plastic surgeon, chemo doc and radiologist. There was also a nurse navigator and social

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  • Day One: No Good News

    February 16, 2017 JWRomick

    There is no good news here. Only news of the darkest, most dire variety. While technically it may not be the worst news one could

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October 17, 2017 JWRomick Pic A Week 2 comments

The Pic-A-Week post this week is a little late. I usually publish it on Saturday. But this past Saturday I

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Knee High, Right Down The Middle

October 17, 2017 JWRomick Our Story 5 comments

I don’t have the words. Yet the occasion demands something be said. Something with some level of profundity. I’m not

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Cake

October 7, 2017 JWRomick Pic A Week Comments Off on Cake

Who doesn’t love cake? It can turn an ordinary day into something spectacular. Cake is at the center of many

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Down The Shore

September 30, 2017 JWRomick Pic A Week Comments Off on Down The Shore

Growing up in New Jersey from 1960 through the summer of 1974 we spent many sunny days on Atlantic Ocean

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Grandpas

September 23, 2017 JWRomick Pic A Week Comments Off on Grandpas

There’s a verse in the Old Testament book of Proverbs that has become on of my favorites. Proverbs 17:6 “Grandchildren

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Sparky

September 17, 2017 JWRomick Our Story 6 comments

He runs now. Through forests, dark and cool. Across great green fields, the tall grass seeming to part before him.

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The New Place

September 16, 2017 JWRomick Pic A Week Comments Off on The New Place

I’ve had more addresses than I can count. Well, I guess I could count them. One in Pittsburgh, 2 in

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Grandmas

September 9, 2017 JWRomick Pic A Week Comments Off on Grandmas

Grandparents hold a very special place in our families, especially in the Romick and Stirmel families. After our parents they’re

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